ARCHAEOLOGIST

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon

1866 - 1923

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George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon has received more than 1,712,769 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon is the 16th most popular archaeologist (down from 12th in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 648th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Archaeologist.

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon is most famous for being the financial backer of the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon ranks 16 out of 151. Before him are Nynetjer, Marija Gimbutas, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, V. Gordon Childe, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli. After him are Oscar Montelius, Karl Richard Lepsius, Louis Leakey, Austen Henry Layard, Alcide d'Orbigny, and Khaemweset.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon ranks 28. Before him are Nathan Söderblom, Emilio De Bono, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ambroise Vollard, Léon Bakst, and Butch Cassidy. After him are Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Enrique Simonet, Princess Milica of Montenegro, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Leopold Mandić, and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia. Among people deceased in 1923, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon ranks 25. Before him are James Dewar, George Hendrik Breitner, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Princess Louise of Prussia, Edward Emerson Barnard, and Milena Vukotić. After him are Aleksandar Stamboliyski, Max Nordau, Raymond Radiguet, Ernst Troeltsch, Édouard Stephan, and Maurice Barrès.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon ranks 804 out of 8,785. Before him are Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848), John Ambrose Fleming (1849), Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), David Harvey (1935), and John Vane (1927). After him are John Langdon Down (1828), Adam Ferguson (1723), Diana Wynne Jones (1934), Robert Graves (1895), David Cameron (1966), and Osborne Reynolds (1842).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon ranks 3. Before him are Howard Carter (1874), and Arthur Evans (1851). After him are Flinders Petrie (1853), George Smith (1840), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), Max Mallowan (1904), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Alan Gardiner (1879), and Kathleen Kenyon (1906).

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